Even unaware of, everyone’s expecting experience starts long before coming to this world over several weeks in a row. A quite similar experience is faced by the promising young sportsman who expects to be drafted by a leading club and fulfilling his dreams to unleash all his potential and become successful in his sports career. Likewise, the professional football player also expects one day to be called by the coach to defend his national team and play the World Football Cup. After several years of hard work, and oftentimes badly slept nights, students expect to be approved in their final exams and be granted their degree. The experienced professional, on his turn, expects anxiously for an opportunity to be called for a job interview that might come soon or unfortunately, not. Although artists master the skill to make us believe in the emotions that they convey through the fictional characters, they cannot help expecting to be awarded by their work. All in all, expecting is highly laborious. It not only takes time, but it is, in fact, paradoxically time passing through one’s fingers but completely out of your control. Expecting raises the hopes that the outcome might be happily fulfilled, just like the long-awaited son. However, it can also be quite frustrating. Like a failed final year exam, not being drafted by the desired team or remembered by the national coach to play the World Cup. Or maybe, not being seriously considered for the job that you were confident to be fully qualified for. Nonetheless, the intriguing thing with expecting is that no matter how time and energy-consuming it can be, once the awaiting moment is over, it also vanishes all the anxieties, uncertainties and hopelessly that might have crossed your mind and heart. Thus, although expecting for something important is far from easy, developing the confidence and peace of mind that one day the wait will be over is crucial, even though it might be inevitable to wish that the wait does not take that long.
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When you have the chance to say something, think that today soon will turn into past, whilst tomorrow may come so fast that you may hardly notice it as well. Do not ever forget that the wheel keeps on turning this way. When you have the chance to say something, do not let the moment slip through your fingers sand-like. I love you, I miss you, You are important to me, You are pretty, You are my hero, Thank you. You name it. More importantly though. When you have the chance to say something, do not let the wheel turning before you express that. Because yesterday may become too late, whilst tomorrow the chance may not repeat itself. Just say it! Only they know what it means to wear a flower attached to their hair regardless of their age. Only they know what it’s like to purchase a new pair of shoes or bags to be added to an already existing large collection. Only they know how to distinguish the particular cry of their loved ones amidst several others. Only they know how precious it can be having their distinguished beauty acknowledged by their partner. Only they know how large a heart can get to accommodate more people into their lives. Only they know the inexplicable wonders of bringing another human being to life. Only they know how to be strong and steady whilst everybody else believes that they are fragile and vulnerable. Only they know how to ‘read’ other people’s mind even when no word is said. Therefore, for all this, and much much more, only being a woman to fully comprehend the uniqueness of being… a Woman! Oftentimes what bring tears down may be some painful event beyond our control, and in such occasions, walls may be their only faithful witness. Whilst in several other times what brings them down can be resulting from mesmerizing joyful moments. In other occasions though, what can bring them down may be the echo of an aching heart that finds no other way to speak up. What can also bring them down can eventually be uncontrollable feelings of momentary loss that, within the boundaries of our limited knowledge, seems unmeasurable. What can bring them down can be associated with the uncertainties of an unpredictable future no matter how hard we try to overcome it. However, besides all these reasons, I still prefer to considering that what brings my tears down Is nothing, but the visible element of the great love that I feel for you. |
Luiz ValérioIndependent writer with a passion for traveling, photography and connecting them to literature. Archives
February 2020
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